
Dimi Reider
US to cut UNESCO funding over Palestine membership vote
Hours after UNESCO votes to grant membership to Palestinians, the US moves to cut its funding of the UN organization. The Obama Administration demonstrated this evening that even the pettiest grudge by Israel outweighs in its eyes the cultural, scientific and educational needs of all its other allies combined, as it moved to withdraw its share - $70 million - from the UNESCO budget. The administration is legally bound to commit this folly, true; but rather than stress that the incredibly disproportionate move reflects US law but not US policy, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland chose to attack UNESCO itself.…
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